Cassidy Hutchinson told panel she had been told Trump lunged for wheel of SUV to try to join mob at Capitol
Prosecutors in the justice department’s civil rights division are seeking criminal charges against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top Trump White House aide who gave explosive testimony to the committee that investigated the US attack on the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The potential charges involve lying to Congress, the person said.
Hutchinson, a former top aide to the White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, told the panel among other things that the deputy chief of staff for operations told her that Trump did not want to return to the White House on January 6 and at one point grabbed the wheel of his SUV to try to join supporters at the Capitol. Republicans have long disputed this account.
Whether or not Trump did what she said she heard, that doesn’t mean she wasn’t told that. That isn’t purjery. It’s hearsay. Unless her source is saying that they never said anything even close to that to her, even if it is possible she misheard, that’s not perjury. You’d have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that she made it up wholecloth.